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Laraine Newman on The Sisters Grimm, Finding Her...

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2026/10/05

Laraine Newman is all for scaring the kids a little. The Saturday Night Live original cast member talks with Kyle Meredith about returning as Granny Relda for season two of The Sisters Grimm, why the show’s mix of comedy and horror works just as well for adults, and how she can pull the character’s voice right back out of the trunk when it’s time to record. Newman also looks back at studying mime with Marcel Marceau, explains why she bailed when mime “got cute,” and admits it didn’t exactly inform

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24:13

Rewind: Wolf Parade’s Dan Boeckner & The Black...

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2026/09/30

What happens when the world gets darker and the music starts absorbing it? In this KMW Rewind, Wolf Parade’s Dan Boeckner talks with Kyle Meredith about reuniting for Cry Cry Cry, why the band had to prove they could still write together before returning to the stage, and how political disillusionment found its way into songs like “Weaponized” and “Artificial Life.” Then The Black Angels’ Alex Maas digs into Death Song, the band’s connection to psychedelic history, the meaning behind the album’s

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41:36

Theo Rossi on Come With Me, the Indie-Film Boom, and...

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2026/09/28

Theo Rossi wants movies that leave you arguing in the parking lot. The Sons of Anarchy and Emily the Criminal star talks with Kyle Meredith about Come With Me, playing Simon as an ordinary guy enduring a “death by a thousand cuts,” and why the film was built to let audiences wrestle with whether he’s a victim or a villain rather than hand them an answer. Rossi also makes the case that we may be living through a new golden age of independent film, explains why actors can’t afford to “just be an

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22:57

Modern English Reclaims Its Post-Punk Fire, Sex...

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2026/09/23

Modern English frontman Robbie Grey talks with Kyle Meredith about reuniting the band’s original lineup for 2017’s Take Me to the Trees, recapturing the fire of Mesh & Lace and After the Snow, and writing “You’re Corrupt” amid Trump, Brexit, and widening inequality. Then Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook takes the focus as he and Tom Spencer discuss rebuilding The Professionals without Steve Jones, creating a more contemporary version of the band’s poppy punk sound, and calling in famous friends to

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25:48

Peaches on No Lube So Rude, Menopause, and Fighting...

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2026/09/21

Peaches is done with “me versus them,” but she’s definitely not done fighting. Talking with Kyle Meredith, Peaches digs into No Lube So Rude, her first album in a decade, and how a world getting more polarized pushed her back toward new music, while menopause, aging, sexuality, and the need for some actual communication all found their way into the songs. She also talks about growing older alongside the fans who first found her 25 years ago, the wild public reactions to political drag artist Jenna

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29:18

Rewind: Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan and The Dead...

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2026/09/16

Sometimes keeping an old band alive means making sure it never turns into an oldies act. On this KMW Rewind, Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan and The Dead Milkmen’s Joe Jack Talcum talk with Kyle Meredith about why new music still matters decades into their careers, with McCaughan looking back at the urgency and anxiety that fueled What a Time to Be Alive and Talcum explaining why The Dead Milkmen only agreed to reunite if they kept writing. They also get into finding creativity inside a longtime band,

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38:45

David Dastmalchian on Street Fighter, Building M....

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2026/09/14

David Dastmalchian is building M. Bison from the cult leader up. Talking with Kyle Meredith, the actor says the new Street Fighter finds Bison before he’s mastered Psycho Power, which meant digging into dictators, religious movements, and the psychology of getting people to follow you instead of simply playing the big bad boss. He also gets into the Tool, Nine Inch Nails, Joy Division, Nick Cave, and John Williams-heavy playlist he used to get into character, why director Kitao Sakurai’s practical,

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42:48

Rewind: Valerie June and Billy Bragg on Finding Your...

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2026/09/09

Songs have lives of their own, and some political ones have an unfortunate habit of becoming relevant all over again. In this KMW Rewind, Valerie June talks with Kyle Meredith across two archival conversations about drawing from spirituals and early blues, teaching herself to play around her voice, and making Pushing Against the Stone and The Order of Time, while Billy Bragg explains why protest writers need to spend as much time on the song as the protest. Along the way, June recalls recording with

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34:03

Jeff Arcuri on Nice to Meet You, Moving Beyond Crowd...

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2026/09/07

Jeff Arcuri nearly canceled Nice to Meet You before therapy, trusted comic friends, and a month away from the footage helped him see what he had made. The comedian talks with Kyle Meredith about how corporate gigs, cruise ships, and 15 years of stand-up shaped his crowd work, while the Netflix special finally proves there’s much more to his act than improvisation. Arcuri also opens up about finding the right way to address his wife Katie’s cancer diagnosis, the strange sadness that followed the

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44:46

Rewind: Slowdive on Their Unexpected Second Act,...

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2026/09/02

Slowdive’s second act turned out to be much bigger than anyone in the band expected. In this Rewind, bassist Nick Chaplin looks back at the band’s self-titled comeback, the moment “Star Roving” proved they could make new music again, and realizing a younger generation saw them as a current band instead of a legacy act. Neil Halstead then talks with Kyle Meredith about following it with Everything Is Alive, building songs from electronic sketches and happy accidents, and balancing Slowdive’s love of

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21:22

Brittany Howard on Alabama Shakes’ Surprise Reunion,...

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2026/08/31

Brittany Howard talks with Kyle Meredith about how Alabama Shakes unexpectedly found their way back together after reuniting for a friend’s brewery fundraiser, which led from a few songs to an EP and eventually their first album in more than a decade, I Must Be Dreaming. Howard digs into the record’s psychedelic soul sound, rediscovering old songs like “Hold On” through a new perspective, and how the album found its story where our private fears, doubts, and dreams collide with a pretty uncertain

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24:03

Patrick Renna & Danielle Fishel on Dugout Dads,...

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2026/08/26

Dugout Dads reunites some familiar faces, but Patrick Renna and Danielle Fishel have no interest in trying to recreate The Sandlot or Boy Meets World. The longtime friends talk with Kyle Meredith about Renna turning the insanity of Little League parents into a new comedy series, bringing his Sandlot castmates back as fictionalized versions of themselves, and why Fishel sees the whole thing as “rebooting a cast” instead of rebooting a classic. They also get into Renna independently funding and

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34:57

Grace Cummings on Bloodhorse, Studio Scythes, and Her...

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2026/08/24

Grace Cummings made Bloodhorse! like it might be the last thing she ever does, and that meant finally shutting out the voice telling her she was “too much.” Cummings talks with Kyle Meredith about going bigger and stranger with producer Jonathan Wilson, the animals and mythology running through the record, and how its themes only started revealing themselves after she finished it. She also gets into the hilarious AI-generated bro-country song buried in the middle of Bloodhorse!, why it’s

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29:37

Scott Shriner & Patrick Wilson on Weezer’s Gold...

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2026/08/19

Weezer finally got its mission statement together: “Let’s just work together.” Scott Shriner and Patrick Wilson talk with Kyle Meredith about The Gold Album, the band’s 20th record, and how sitting in a living room together turned the sessions into a creative rebirth. They also get into rejecting the modern obsession with grids and perfection, developing a stronger bass-and-drums connection, the self-aware message behind “CEO,” and taking the new songs on the road alongside The Shins and Silversun

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32:09

Anthony Michael Hall on Nation’s Dumbest, Surviving...

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2026/08/17

Anthony Michael Hall says the secret to a 50-year acting career is learning how to “outlast uncertainty,” and that can also mean signing up for a game show called Nation’s Dumbest. Hall talks with Kyle Meredith about getting past the title of the Fox and Hulu celebrity competition, being surprised by castmates like JoJo Siwa, Steve-O, Elle King, and Andrew Yang, and why the whole experience reminded him not to take himself too seriously. He also looks back at the difficult years that followed his

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36:21

David Duchovny on Prince of Pieces, Songwriting, and...

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2026/08/12

David Duchovny says a song is already part of the past the moment you finish writing it, which helps explain why Prince of Pieces includes material he has carried for more than a decade. Talking with Kyle Meredith, he gets into using familiar images to hide personal truths, the creative reinvention that began when he picked up a guitar around age 50, and why screenwriting scratches a very different itch than novels or songs. He also opens up about acting opposite his daughter in Soapbox, the

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20:03

David Rysdahl & Lily Sullivan on Soulm8te, AI...

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2026/08/10

David Rysdahl and Lily Sullivan join Kyle Meredith to dig into Soulm8te, talking about how the M3GAN universe uses horror to explore grief, addiction, and the ways technology fills emotional voids. Sullivan breaks down creating an android that always feels just a little off, drawing from old Hollywood, movement work, and ideas about constructed femininity, while Rysdahl explains why his character had to be played without judgment so audiences could decide for themselves. They also get into filming

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30:36

Jay Chandrasekhar on Super Troopers 3, Bringing Back...

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2026/08/07

Jay Chandrasekhar wants Super Troopers 3 to help bring loud, R-rated comedy back to theaters, and he’s not interested in turning it into another political shouting match. Talking with Kyle Meredith, the Broken Lizard filmmaker explains why the new sequel plays like Meet the Parents meets Super Troopers, how Farva’s Indian wedding opened the door for some seriously edgy jokes, and why one gag still went too far to survive. He also gets into the Dukes of Hazzard-style car jump, Mac getting frozen in

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36:16

Rewind: Guster and Phoenix on Reinvention, Escaping...

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2026/08/05

This Rewind episode brings together two conversations about bands refusing to let a familiar sound become a comfortable trap. Guster’s Ryan Miller, speaking with Kyle Meredith in 2016, digs into Evermotion, moving beyond ’90s nostalgia, and reinventing the band through new instruments and studio experimentation, while Phoenix’s Thomas Mars looks back from 2017 on how Italian pop, cryptic English, Bowie, Prince, and getting bored with his own voice shaped Ti Amo. Both arrive at a similar place,

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19:08

Jane Seymour on Harry Wild, Reuniting with Joe Lando,...

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2026/08/03

Jane Seymour catches up with Kyle Meredith to talk about why Harry Wild keeps getting better five seasons in, bringing Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman co-star Joe Lando back into her orbit, and the chemistry that still “crackles” after decades together. She also shares how she helped make the reunion happen, recalls witnessing the infamous “Scottish play” curse firsthand, and explains why she’s already hoping for a sixth season. Plus, Seymour looks back at the unlikely legacy of her homes as creative

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